Looked through google and bing but couldn't find it.

I'm looking for an article I read awhile back about the study of meditation and how a scientific study showed that it harms the brain by making people lose their sense of reality and make them feel detached from the people and places around them.

I spent a whole hour looking for it but couldn't find anything. I'm wondering if anybody would care to help? It was a scientific study but all I could find was prayer healing techniques by monks.

http://www.behind-the-tm-facade.org/transcendental_meditation-harmful-abstracts.htm

http://www.prem-rawat-maharaji.info/index.php?id=31

Those list the mentioned effects plus others. Not sure whether that's what you're looking for, I simply googled meditation harmful.

A family friend's daughter actually probably got some of that. Never asked too much about it obviously, but she got into some yoga meditation thing in France and ended up in a mental institution.

Wow... I was searching "impaired, harm, and scientific research meditation" lol, thanks.